re: #11 goddamnedfrank

Well, I’ve actually read Chilton’s The Days of Vengeance, and pretty much concluded that, while it might seem strange to some modern American conceptualization of Christianity, historically speaking Chilton’s positions weren’t uncommon in the past.

There really is no logical reconciliation between classic Christian soteriology and non-Christian beliefs. Some modern practitioners of Catholicism try, I think, and the “mainline” Protestant churches have developed a much more loose interpretation of “salvation”. Yet it is true that for 13 centuries, from Augustine through Calvin, the major Christian teachers were quiet adamant about the exclusivity of the claims of Christianity.